Producer
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (Sinar Mas Group)
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (Singapore Exchange: GGR; Sinar Mas Group, Widjaja family; ~$9B revenue) is one of the world's largest oil palm plantation companies with approximately 463,000 hectares of planted oil palm across Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesia). GAR produces approximately 4.3 million tonnes of FFB per year from its own plantations plus smallholder purchases. GAR operates 50+ palm oil mills in Indonesia, processing FFB into crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel oil (PKO). The Sinar Mas Group — the Widjaja family conglomerate — is the ultimate parent, with interests also in paper/pulp (Asia Pulp & Paper), property, and financial services. GAR has been heavily involved in deforestation controversy: the company was suspended by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2015 for burning peatland in South Sumatra and Kalimantan — fires so extensive they created a regional haze crisis affecting Malaysia and Singapore. GAR adopted a no-deforestation, no-peat, no-exploitation (NDPE) policy in 2011 after pressure from Greenpeace, though NGOs have documented continuing violations. EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) effective 2024-2025 requires GAR to provide geolocation data for every parcel of land supplying its supply chain — a compliance burden for a company with millions of smallholder suppliers.
1
Inputs supplied
1
Goods downstream
1
Facilities
0
Stories
What they make
1 input Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (Sinar Mas Group) supplies
Click an input to see every good that depends on it, every country that produces it, and every other company in the supply chain.
Where it shows up
Goods downstream
Essential goods that depend on something Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (Sinar Mas Group) makes, pick one to see the full supply chain.
What else they do
Business segments
The company's full revenue map, where this supply-chain role fits within their broader business.
Oil Palm Plantation & Milling
50%Palm Oil Refining
25%Oleochemicals
15%Biodiesel
10%
Intelligence
What's known
Sourced claims about this company's role in supply chains, chokepoints, concentration, incidents, dual-use connections.
Did you know2024
GAR's palm oil from Indonesian plantations flows simultaneously into four entirely separate market supply chains: (1) food — cooking oil, margarine, snack food palm oil; (2) personal care — shampoo, soap, and cosmetics use palm-derived fatty acids and glycerin; (3) industrial oleochemicals — lubricants, plastics additives, textile processing; and (4) biofuel — palm FAME biodiesel blended into Indonesian and EU transport fuel. The same crude palm oil molecule going through the same refinery splits into these four markets at the fractionation stage. When palm oil prices spike (as they did in 2022 during the Indonesia export ban), food security, personal care production costs, industrial chemistry, and renewable fuel blending targets are disrupted simultaneously from a single Southeast Asian crop failure or policy decision.
Golden Agri-Resources ↗Origin2023
Golden Agri-Resources was built by the Widjaja family's Sinar Mas Group, founded by Eka Tjipta Widjaja — a Fujian-born Chinese immigrant who arrived in Indonesia as a teenager in the 1930s and built from commodity trading into one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates. Sinar Mas expanded into oil palm through the transmigration era of the 1980s-90s when the Suharto government offered concessions to convert Sumatran and Kalimantan forests to oil palm. GAR listed on the Singapore Exchange to access international capital and today controls nearly half a million hectares of Indonesian oil palm.
Golden Agri-Resources ↗